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As much as we’ve been curious about what our classmates have done and where they are, the next most frequent questions have revolved around our teachers. What did they do after they survived our shenanigans; where are they now, and unfortunately, when did they pass away.

We’ve done some preliminary research and once again, there are stories here. As ever, if you have any information about one of your favorites, please let us know.

What would a site be without remembering the people charged with shaping us into full fledged people. We all have our favorites and otherwise. But they too were there at that time and place we call Wayne Valley High School in 1967. Perhaps what we forget is that they have their own stories too, Some were veteran teachers; others just at the beginning of their careers. Here they are with as many current photos as we have been able to assemble as we tried to contact them all as well.

Administration

John Van Dyken

d.

Norman Harrison

d.

Kenneth Sinofsky

Pompano Beach FL

1927 - 11/27/2003

Kenneth Sinofsky, Coach of Champions - Grid Great led Wayne Valley, East Rutherford to 5 titles.

Kenneth S. Sinofsky, a legendary football coach at Wayne Valley High School, died Thursday at his winter home in Pompano Beach FL. He led teams for 5 state titles in a coaching career that spanned more than 30 years. The gymnasium at Wayne Valley is named in his honor.

(Jon Berry, Bergen Record 11/30/2003

ENGLISH

Robert Ruffing

Sea Girt, NJ

D. August 1988

Esther Lombardo

Wayne, NJ

Charles Tucker

Elizabeth Marcello

Charles Ringle

Fairfield, NJ

Bernice Cofer

Arthur Edelhoff

Carol Pohli

Boca Raton FL

d. 5/19/1994

Louise Dette

d. 1996

Thomas Gannon

Geralyn Gould

Sun Lake AZ

Virginia McCann

SOCIAL STUDIES

David Wagner

d. 2005

Joseph Romano

Fred Paul

d

Donald Sweetman

Hardwick NJ

Angelo Caruso

d

Lucille Attanasio

Fair Lawn, NJ

Albert Threlfall

Edison NJ

Hillel Felder

Media PA

d. 1/20/2009

Joan E Falco Ranaletti

Wayne NJ

Edward Sorock

Fairlawn NJ

d. 8/16/2014

Edward James "Jimmy", was born in Brooklyn, NY. A WWII veteran, wedding photographer and retired teacher, he died at age 91 at his home in Fair Lawn, NJ, Saturday evening, August 16, 2014.Jimmy is survived by his wife of 67 years, Francine G. Sorock (nee Lendman); his sons Peter R. Sorock of Washington D.C. and Gary S. Sorock of Highland Park, NJ; sister Phyllis Kusnitz of Tamarac, FL; daughter-in-law Eleanor E. Sorock of Highland Park, NJ; and beloved grandchildren Charlotte M. Sorock of New Orleans, LA, Rayden Sorock of Pittsburgh, PA, and Abraham Sorock of Beijing, China.He graduated from the New York State Maritime Academy at Ft. Schuyler in the Bronx, NY where he earned the status of Ensign. He served as 3rd officer on the S.S. Frederick Bouchard from November 1944 to February 1945, transporting ammunition across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and was notably present for the liberation of the Philippines.He suffered an injury to his leg aboard ship in July 1945 and was taken to a hospital in Tacloban, Philippines where he was cared for with much appreciation and tenderness. Seventy years later, when that same town was destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, Jimmy sent a donation to the Red Cross in gratitude for the care he once received there. He was extremely proud of his service and was rarely seen without his U.S. Merchant Marine cap. He fought hard for Merchant Marine veterans' benefits, which were not granted until the 1990's.Despite taking pride in his service, he returned from war a staunch advocate for peace and continued to seek peace for the rest of his life.After the war, he earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master's in Education from Columbia University. He worked as a salesman and as a wedding photographer before becoming a social studies teacher and Audio Visual Director at Wayne Valley High School in NJ.As a teacher he developed a curriculum for and then, for many years, taught a course titled "Man's Search for Peace," one of the first Peace Studies courses for high school students in the U.S. He joined the World Federalist Organization early on and remained engaged with politics and organized labor over the course of his life. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/northjersey/obituary.aspx?pid=172165691#sthash.PsR0uDTS.dpuf

MATHEMATICS

Ruth D Thomson

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Michael A. Rosenthal

Cassie DeBow

Pompton Lakes, NJ

Retired from Principalship of Our Lady of Consolation grammar school

William Graf

Bloomingdale, NJ

David Gambuti

Cape May, NJ

d.4/12/2000

Jean Whitford

Manasquan, NJ

Diane Walker

Glenn Pierson

Marmora NJ

Francis Kaplan

George Spaulding

Wayne, NJ

SCIENCE

Robert Frauenhoff

Laurel Grove NJ

d.8/29/2007

Henry Weiss

Kennelon, NJ

Elaine D’Amico

Wayne, NJ

d. 1/20/1998

Louis Domin

Oro Valley AZ

Eleanor Kiersten

Jamesburg, NJ

d. 3/23/2011

Jack Foster

Joseph Maccaro

Pompton Plains, NJ

Michael Pelak

Franklin Lakes NJ

d. 8/19/2004

Charles Anderson

LANGUAGE

Edward Galbiercyzk

d. July 2015

Gay Harding

reported deceased

Judith Bradley

Totowa, NJ

Took a hiatus from teaching in 1969 to begin my family--had 2 sons.

Came back to WHS in 1973 to teach supplemental part time.

Returned full time (to WVHS, as it was now called) as French teacher in 1981.

Got Masters in counseling, but never went that route.

Continued to teach French until retirement in 1998.

During teaching years, my husband John (who taught in Wayne Hills until 2000) and I made 25+ trips to Europe with students at first, and later with adults. We went to France at least 20 of those times, and never tired of visiting that beautiful country.

Margaret Link (Lash)

Kinnelon, NJ

Barbara Albanese

Naples FL

Mary Jane Pelligrino (Tierney)

Anne P Bogardus

Marie Cancelarich

Hillsdale NJ

d. 11/12/2002

ART/MUSIC

Ronald Kerr

John Kuzmich

Denver CO

Lois Hlavacek

Elaine Douma

West Milford, NJ

d. 4/18/2005

Samuel M. Ciresi

Pompton Lakes, NJ

Barbara Heyerdoff

BUSINESS EDUCATION

Ruth Wright

Beatrice Gersie

Medford, NJ

Location confirmed. Alive and well

Esther Van Campen Lacey

Farmington Hills MI

After high school I attended Montclair State College and received a BA in business education. Then in 1966 I received a MA from Paterson State College in special education I taught business education and special education for a total of 13 years in NJ, MD, and MI where I have lived for almost 40 years. While still single I had a whirlwind trip around the world visiting 13 countries.

In 1973 I married my husband, John Lacy, and we had a daughter and a son. I was a stay at home mom until my children were older and in school. Then I went back to work having various part time jobs ‚€“ substitute teacher, physical therapy aide, medical records transcriber, bookkeeper, and office assistant I also volunteered at my children’s school and at my church. Our family spent many vacations going camping in the MI state parks.

Now I am retired and spend most of my time doing charity sewing. The fabric calls me! I make bears for adult cancer patients (Sojourn Bears) and quilts for preemies and ICU babies (Tiny Miracles). I also enjoy reading, riding my bicycle, doing handwork, working as a church volunteer, and participating in various activities that come my way.

Elise Morgan

reported deceased

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

Adrian Van Zweden

West Milford, NJ

Adrian Van Zweden taught his first class when Harry Truman was in the White House, and his most recent class this month.

The ramrod-straight 92-year-old towered over a roomful of fourth-graders at Eastern Christian Elementary School in Midland Park. He was showing them his collection of colorful rocks and minerals and his big, old magnet.

"There's something outside this magnet — I can't see it, I can't touch it, but I want to prove to you it's there," he said, milking the suspense.

He took a copper wire spooled around an iron core and swiped it by the magnet, creating sparks that prompted a giggly chorus of awesome! and cool!

"Whoa!" Van Zweden cried. "We're making electricity! I told you there was something there!"

Twenty-seven years after retiring as the Wayne schools' director of career and occupational education, Van Zweden is still at it. And he still has it (NJ Record)

Vandermay: Adrian Van Zweden, age 99, of North Haledon, passed Wednesday, November 7, 2018.¬ He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and lived in Passaic, New Jersey, Wallington, Wayne, and West Milford before moving to North Haledon sixteen years ago. He was a graduate of the Passaic High Schools Class of 1937.

A few years after he graduated high school the United States became involved in World War II, and in 1941 Adrian joined the United States Navy. He was Honorably Discharged on January 11, 1946, from the Navy having attained the rank of Chief Yeoman. He was awarded the European Theatre Medal, the American Defense Medal, WWII Victory Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, and the American Theatre Medal for his service.

Adrian continued his education, under the G.I. Bill, at Newark State College where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Education with the Class of 1949. He would go on to achieve his Masters Degree in Education from New York University in New York City in 1952 and his Certificate of Administration from Rutgers University. He first taught for the Montclair Board of Education for six years and moved to the Wayne Board of Education where he taught for eleven years and served an additional eighteen years as an administrator for the Wayne Township Board of Education before retiring in 1984.

Adrian was a member and former Deacon of the Ebenezer Netherland Reformed Church in Franklin Lakes.¬ He served as President of the New Jersey Industrial Arts Association and as Director of the Wayne Chamber of Commerce for eight years.

He was the loving husband of the late Audrey (Lendick) Van Zweden (d. 2003); devoted father of John Van Zweden (Mary Lee) of Ormond Beach, FL, Robert Van Zweden (Karen) of West Milford; loved brother of the late Jacob Van Zweden and his late wife Alice, the late Joseph Van Zweden and his surviving wife Marrie of Sioux Center, IA, Jackie Rozeboom and her surviving husband William of Inwood, IA, the late Kees Van Zweden and his late wife Mabel, and the late Jane Friesema and her late husband John; much loved grandfather of Patty Kulenski and her husband Art, Cheryl Van Zweden, Christina Hockenberry and¬ her husband Nathan, John Van Zweden, and Janelle Van Zweden.

Friends may visit with the family from 6:30 ‚Ä“ 8:30 PM on Monday, November 12, 2018, at the Holland Christian Home, 151 Graham Ave., North Haledon.¬ A 10 AM Funeral Service will be held on Tuesday, November 13, 2018 at the Holland Christian Home.

Interment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.

In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Netherlands Reformed Church Benevolent Fund, 875 Ewing Avenue, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 would be appreciated.

A Memorial Service will be held 4:00 pm Friday, June 3, 2011 at Munden Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jack Mumford officiating.

Pat was born and raised in Paterson, NJ and received a degree from Rutgers University. He was a physical education teached for 20 years before owning and operating Chatham Deli in Chatham, NJ. He was married to the late Linda DiLemma for 42 years and raised their family in Jefferson and Madison, NJ.

He was an avid golfer and fisherman and thoroughly enjoyed his retirement in Morehead City.

He is survived by two sons, Scott and Kurt; their wives, Wendy and Susan; two grandsons, Tyler and Brandon; and close family friend, Becky DeSilva.